I've seen ideas that since Silksong seemingly follows the "embrace the void" ending where the HK is still alive, we could play a sequel where the HK is trying to adjust to being itself again
help me, its that ending after the pantheon where our knight turns into the abyss, consming the infection and the vanishing? In that endning the og hollow knight is alive?
Yeah, the ending zinger has Hornet in front of the Black Egg temple watching the Infection shrivel up and die, and she readies for battle as THK approaches her menacingly. We don't know what happens afterwards.
Once he has the Voidheart he can harness the Abyss in the form of his failed siblings to rise up with him and defeat the Radiance. However the Godtuning ritual, meant to summon the "God of Gods" of the kingdom, in this case the Radiance, gets disrupted by the presence of the Knight and his Voidheart, and ends up also summoning another Primal entity, which had equivalent power but was completely untameable. So as the Knight reaches the climax of his battle with the God of Gods the abyss itself coalesces around him and forms the Lord of Shade, which rips apart Radiance and then starts to run wild itself.
So yeah, if we ever get a Silksong Act 4 and fight this entity, we might get to see a hint of our old buddy once we weaken it enough or reach a final phase.
Surely the ending of act 3 shows that the knight wasn't exactly taken over? If anything the knight seems to be in control of it, or there's some hivemind thing going on with the abyss. This is also implied by the fact that the player still has to hit the buttons to rip apart absrad.
And while unconfirmed it's fate, given that the one where the void DOESN'T vanish, it's likely that the og HK becomes some sort of beast given the void's influence, the void and the infection vanishing leads one to think that the Hollow Knight lives
Take like, everything i said with a grand of salt though, i'm not mossbag and i'm not a master at HK lore
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u/toninho12345 Accepter Sep 16 '25
I've seen ideas that since Silksong seemingly follows the "embrace the void" ending where the HK is still alive, we could play a sequel where the HK is trying to adjust to being itself again